Plants can transform your home or workspace into a more peaceful, tranquil, and beautiful place, but if you're not good with them, your improved space can quickly turn into a depressing chamber of death. The solution: Get some more resilient plants.

All-things-home weblog Apartment Therapy rounds up five hard-to-kill houseplants that will keep your peaceful, plant-adorned space alive even if you've got the brownest of thumbs. Those five:

Dracaena marginata

Sansevieria

Ficus

Philodendron

Bromeliad

Click on any of the images below to see a closer look at the plants.

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Note that some of the plants aren't pet-friendly (actually, all but the Bromeliad is listed as toxic to cats and dogs by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), so you'll want to either avoid those if you've got a pet or make sure your pet isn't a plant-eater.